Travel Website of the Week: Airline Meals

When it comes to airline food, people love to complain. On Airline Meals, a website devoted to the fine art of feeding passengers in the sky, people can complain as much as they want about the food and sometimes they even praise it.

For more than a decade, airlinemeals.net has been displaying photos of airline food submitted by site visitors. People comment on the meals and rate them.

At one point, the website may have been a novelty, but everyone’s a foodie these days and no one blinks if you take a moment to photograph your food before eating. The result is the steady stream of submissions to the site continues.

You can browse by airline, search by types of food, look for the ones with the highest ratings or compare the meals served in economy class to the ones in business or first class.

If you are interested in the sort of food you can get in airline lounges in airports, the site has some photos of those, too.

For those who want to wax nostalgic about the good, old days when you could get a meal on even the shortest flights, the site has photos of airline food from decades past.

I have my own fond memories of flying the early morning flight between Montreal and Toronto, which is barely more than an hour long, and being served a full breakfast with actual cutlery. Eventually, they started serving breakfast in a brown-paper bag. It contained an apple and a bread roll. That was the beginning of the end for free, in-flight meals on domestic flights for economy class passengers.

The next time you fly somewhere and are fed a meal, take a moment to take a photo and send it to airlinemeals.net.